Mike, I am so sorry to hear about your mother. As, I have told you before, I remember when she came to Mrs. Sheffields class in the 4th grade and spoke to us about the Netherlands and gave us chocolate. She was blonde and so beautiful. I wished my mom was like that. I guess that's why I always was the room mother to my children. I would have been over the moon, if I had known then that my family was from the Netherlands as well.

June 28, 2013

May the love of friends and family carry you through your grief.

Glenn McDearmon

June 25, 2013 | Bowling Green, VA

Bill, we are so sorry for your loss. Your mother was certainly a remarkable woman. Mike and I are keeping you and your family in our prayers.

Clare Dunn

June 21, 2013 | Richmond, VA

Good night sweet Dutchy. See you in the morning.

Pam Lane

June 21, 2013 | Ricchmond, VA

Jhonny and Irmy were like brother and sister. Sorry to hear from this lost.

Much love from Elly and children, Amersfoort The Netherlands

June 21, 2013

Our thoughts and prayers are with you all. She was a wonderful woman who brought much joy, love & laughter to this world. Love to all, The Mac's from Springfield

June 20, 2013 | MA

She had the greatest smile. She would just look at me and it would make me smile. She also made the best New England Clam Chowder I EVER ate...and I ate a lot when she made it! She will be greatly missed!

Ellie Kennedy

June 20, 2013 | Oceanside, CA

Hers was a life richly lived, full of loving friends and family. Thank you for all the memories dear friend.

Janice and Glenn Nutting

June 20, 2013 | Lewiston, ME

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OGLESBY, Irmgard Melanie Weber, known to her many beloved friends and family members as "Dutchy," 86, of Richmond, died June 15, 2013. She was born November 15, 1926 in Amersfoort, The Netherlands, the daughter of the late Willy Oscar Alfred Weber and Erna Mathilde Weber-Werth. Mrs. Oglesby spent her teenage years under Nazi occupation with her family in The Netherlands, where she joined with so many others in the Dutch resistance movement, bicycling messages for the "underground." She met her future husband, U.S. Army Captain Earnest Jackson Oglesby Jr., while both were employed by the Army's World War II American Graves Registry office in Liege, Belgium. They were married on December 4, 1948 in her hometown of Amersfoort and lived in Paris prior to moving to the U.S. in May 1949, where she became a proud U.S. citizen. Dutchy and Jack were married for 52 years prior to his death on October 29, 2001. Mrs. Oglesby is survived by two sons, Michael Jackson Oglesby and his wife, Randy, and William Geddy Oglesby and his wife, Marcia; two daughters, Cameron Mathilde Oglesby and Christine Elizabeth Oglesby; four grandchildren, Melanie Oglesby and her fiance, Rob Soscia, of Norfolk, Va., Jessica Jannuzzi and her husband, Justin, of Virginia Beach, Va., and Pamela Oglesby and Caroline Oglesby, both of Richmond. She was predeceased by a sister, Martha Weber Wyker. A memorial service will be conducted at 3 p.m. Monday, June 24, 2013 at St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church, 10627 Patterson Ave. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to Tuckahoe Volunteer Rescue Squad, 1101 Horsepen Rd., Richmond, Va. 23229; or to St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church, 10627 Patterson Ave., Richmond, Va. 23238. This obituary was originally published in the Richmond Times-Dispatch.

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